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1. The organization Anti-Slavery International estimates that about how many men, women, and children live today in conditions that approximate slavery?
· 200,000
· 2 million
· 200 million
· 2 billion

· 200 million

2. Following modernization theory, what might rich nations do to assist poor nations that seek economic development?
· Help poor nations to control their population
· Increase food production in poor nations
· Introduce advanced technology to poor nations
· All of the above

· All of the above

4. Poor countries are characterized by:
· Limited energy resources and little advanced techonology
· High levels of population increase
· Cultures that discourage change
· All of the above

· All of the above

5. With regard to the role of rich nations, dependency theory:
· Agrees with modernization theory
· Urges rich nations to invest in poor countries
· Claims that rich nations are to blame for global poverty
· Claims the rich nations prevent poor countries from “growing for export”

Claims that rich nations are to blame for global poverty

. Over the last century:
· Living standards rose in most of the world
· Rich nations gained wealth faster than poor nations
· The world’s food production went up
· All of the above

All of the above

8. Pornography is of concern to:
· Conservatives who oppose it on moral grounds
· Liberals who oppose it as demeaning to women
· All people who seek to protect free speech and artistic expression
· All of the above

All of the above

9. What share of married U.S. couples depend on two incomes?
· Very few
· More than half
· All
· None

13. Read the following four statements. Which of the statements is NOT an example of institutional discrimination?
· A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race
· A bank usually refuses loans to people of a certain race
· A police dept promotes people of one race faster than those of another
· A school district segregates schools

· A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race

14. The existence of the "Negro leagues" in professional baseball in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s is an example of:
· Assimilation
· Segregation
· Pluralism
· Miscegenation

· Segregation

15. The term "white ethnics" refers to:
· People of Hispanic ancestry who are light skinned
· People of any ethnicity who are light skinned
· Biracial or multiracial people
· Non-WASPs of European ancestry

Non-WASPs of European ancestry

17. Based on scapegoat theory, you would conclude that prejudice is caused by:
· Culture itself
· High levels of immigration
· Frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged
· People with rigid personalities

Frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged

18. The rate of small business ownership is high among Asian Americans. This pattern reflects:
· a history of facing little or no racial prejudice and discrimination
· a lack of formal schooling
· cultural values including achievement and self-reliance.
· All of the above

cultural values including achievement and self-reliance

20. While being in the upper-upper class is usually the result of __________, being in the lower-upper class is more often a matter of __________.
· Birth; achievement
· Business success; birth
· Making lots of money; who you know
· High-income; having lots of schooling

Birth; achievement

21. Popular author J. K. Rowling, who was once poor, has earned a fortune with her books. Rowling is a member of which social class?
· Upper-upper
· Lower-upper
· Upper-middle
· Middle

· Lower-upper

22. In terms of race, two-thirds of all poor people in the United States are:
· African-American
· Asian-American
· Hispanic
· White

24. In English history, the concept "primogeniture" refers to:
· giving everyone in a family the same chance to own land.
· passing land and other property from a father to the oldest son or other male relation.
· ensuring that all children receive part of the parents' estate .
· the fact that nobles are often the "best" people.

passing land and other property from a father to the oldest son or other male relation.

26. David Riesman described "tradition-directed social character" as
· conformity to the latest fashions and fads
· rigid conformity to traditional ways of life
· being highly individualistic
· all of the above

rigid conformity to traditional ways of life

. Max Weber claimed that modernization was evident in which of the following?
· The rise of capitalism
· The rise of science
· The spread of bureaucracy
· All of the above

· All of the above

29. Ralph Linton made the point that many familiar elements in today's way of life:
· Came to us from other cultures
· Were all invented by members of our own society
· Were unknown even a few decades ago
· Were discovered completely by accident